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In the Southern hemisphere moderate climate zone the colder season is also called 'winter', but the winter months are June, July and August, since all the countries that use the Gregorian calendar hav …

general term for both antecedents proper (the preceding ones) and for postcedents (the following ones), so the answer is anyway "John", but whether is is the antecedent or the postcedent depends on the terminology …

What you call a word is actually called a lexeme, what you call inflected forms are actually called lemmas. The difference between the lexeme-to-lexeme synonymity and the lemma-to-lemma synonymity is …

Both nouns and adjectives are called 'nominal parts of speech', from Latin nomen 'noun', the Latin for 'adjective' being 'nomen adiectivum'. I guess that can be the source of the Etymonline confusion. …

What I know about the agreement of the Classical Arabic adjectives is that they must agree in number and gender with the noun they modify. Another thing is, the plural nouns that denote non-persons (e …

It means that in spontaneus the t belongs to the root of the word, it's an organic, natural part of that word, while in simultaneus the t and the whole ending -taneous was abstracted from spontaneus a …

toki pona is a constructed language which is very close to what you're looking for, it has only 120 words and you cannot add any new ones, you can just combine the existing ones to get the meaning you …

For lists of the linguistic terms with their short explanation see these links: General linguistics terms - terms are grouped according to the field of linguistics, downloadable variant available. S …

I think this is called diglossia which is a a kind of bilingualism in a society in which one of the languages has high prestige, and another of the languages has low prestige. There were and are lots …

The best term to name those words is homophones. The reason for this term to be suitable for what you are looking for is that it is made up of homo- “same” and phone “sound”, there is nothing related …

That's called acrophony or acrophonic principle.

The closest term to what you need is hypercorrection which is sometimes called hyperurbanism: In linguistics or usage, hypercorrection is a non-standard usage that results from the over-applicatio …

At the university I was taught those are predicatives, and these are sentences with compound nominative predicates (like in "He is drunk). Your bold words are adjectives, and the verbs ("entered", "le …

Since in your examples the 1st component determines the 2nd one (not just hunting, but specifically rabbit-hunting, not simply driving, but self-driving), such compounds are of the tatpuruṣa (aka tatp …

That's called the 'generalization / extension / broadening' of meaning: words with concrete meaning (like 'dialing' meaning 'calling by turning the round wheel on the phone') begin to mean more genera …